Collections in Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division

Charity Alberta Bailey (1904-1978) was a pioneering children's music educator, and the host of two children's television shows, Sing a Song, and Here's Charity. The collection consists of six audio recordings and four videos relating to Charity Bailey's career as a children's music educator dating from circa 1950 to 1978. less

Musician and teacher Samuel Carroll Buchanan (1927-2010) received his PhD from New York University in 1987 with a dissertation on Black jubilee quartets in the United States. The collection consists of fifty-six audio recordings, primarily of interviews with former jubilee quartet members conducted by Buchanan as part of his doctoral research. less

Elayne Williams Corley (1903-1969) was an active member of numerous Black women's societies and clubs, serving as president and treasurer of the Manhattan section of the National Council of Negro Women. The collection consists of two audio recordings relating to Elayne Williams Corley's life and career, dated circa the mid-1940s and 1985. less

The Léon Gontran Damas Recorded Sound Collection consists primarily of noncommercial recordings of radio broadcasts made during his travels to Africa, France, and the United States etc.; as well as one commercial LP audio recording, "Poesie de la Negritude" by Leon G. Damas. The noncommercial material consists of interviews with Damas and others; poetry readings, and lectures by Damas and various other artists; drum music and traditional music from French Guinea and Sub-Saharan Africa. The collection includes the works of Guy Tirolien, Bernard Dadie, Jacques Rabemananjara, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Bob Stokes, Eugene Miller, Jayne Cortez and others. less

Charles Dean Dixon (January 10, 1915 - November 3, 1976) was a renowned conductor of symphony orchestras in the US, as well as in Asia, Australia, and Europe. The collection consists of three films of the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts featuring Dixon as host and conductor, and sixteen audio recordings reflecting his career. less

Musician, composer, conductor, organizer, and recording artist James Reese Europe (February 22, 1880 - May 9, 1919) was a pioneer of the ragtime and jazz genres, and the first African American officer to lead combat troops into battle. The collection contains four audio recordings of music relating to Europe's career as a musician, dating from circa 1919-1920. less

Gloria Foster (November 15, 1933-September 29, 2000) was an actress, best known for her roles as Sadie Delany in the play Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters's First 100 Years (1995) and as the Oracle in The Matrix (1999). The collection consists of sixty-one audio recordings and forty-seven videos relating to Foster's career, research materials for an unproduced miniseries on Winnie Mandela, items featuring her frequent collaborators Camille and Bill Cosby, and other collected recordings. less

The Bureau of Social Science Research (1950-1986) was a nonprofit research agency that studied social issues. The collection contains sixteen audio recordings, including interviews conducted in 1967 with key figures who organized the 1963 March on Washington, and media coverage of the march. less

Lena Horne (June 30, 1917- May 9, 2010) was a singer, actress, dancer, and civil rights activist. The collection consists of three moving image recordings featuring Horne, including two promo reels for the broadway musical Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music and the short film Boogie-Woogie Dream; and five commercially released vinyl records. less

The Lincoln School for Nurses was the first nursing school for African American women in New York City, founded in the Bronx in 1898 and operating until 1961. The collection consists of one film relating to the Lincoln School for Nurses dating from circa 1949 to 1961. less

John Marriott (September 30, 1893 - April 5, 1977) was an actor of stage, film, and television, whose career spanned five decades. The collection consists of six audio recordings including commercial demos by Marriott and one audition recording of radio and television personality Jim Harriott for radio station WMCA. less

The Schomburg Public Programs at the Countee Cullen Library collection consists of 208 sound recordings created from 1941 to 1979. These recordings largely document programs held at the home libraries of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature, History and Prints, the precursor to the Schomburg Center. The collection was first housed in New York Public Library's 135th St. Branch Library, which was renamed the Countee Cullen Library in 1951. less

Born in Jamaica, Raphael Philemon Powell (ca.1899-1995) was a minister who served at Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Harlem, New York City. The collection consists of seven audio recordings including Powell singing songs he composed, a promo for his book, and a church service. less

The Schuyler family included George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977), his wife Josephine Schuyler (née Cogdell, 1900-1969), and their daughter, Philippa Duke Schuyler (1931-1967). Each was notable in their own right: George was a writer and journalist. Josephine, white, was a writer and Texan heiress. Philippa was a pianist, composer, and journalist. The collection consists of ninety-nine audio recordings, created from the 1930s to the 1970s. The recordings are primarily of media appearances, music, and lectures and speeches by George and Philippa. less

Elliott Percival Skinner (June 20, 1924 - April 1, 2007) was a Trinidadian-born anthropologist and US ambassador to the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 1966 to 1969. The collection consists of seventeen audio recordings primarily related to Skinner's research and diplomatic career in Upper Volta, including a lecture by him and folk music recordings. less

José Angel Vigo taught Afro-American studies, anthropology, and Puerto Rican history and culture at Yale, Wes­leyan, and Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ties. The José Vigo audio collection consists of seventeen audio recordings related to Vigo's career in the field of sociolinguistics. less

Civic leader Lester Aglar Walton (April 20, 1882 - October 19, 1965) promoted human rights through songwriting, journalism, and international diplomacy. The collection consists of four 10-inch records and one 12-inch record likely all recorded by Lester A. Walton, dating from circa 1940-1965. less

Economist, public administrator, educator, and author Robert Clifton Weaver (1907-1997) was the secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1966 to 1968, and the first African American to be appointed to a United States Cabinet position. The collection consists of four audio recordings and one video relating to the careers of Weaver and his wife, Ella Haith Weaver, dating from circa 1949-1968 and 2000. less

Malcolm X (1925 - 1965) was an African American nationalist leader and Muslim minister who sought to broaden the civil rights struggle in the United States into an international human rights issue. The Malcolm X audio and moving image collection consists of thirty-four audio recordings and twenty-one films created from circa the 1950s to 1983. less